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The Script at Foxwoods

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Seeing the Script at Foxwoods on Thursday September 28th wasn’t always my plan, at first I had considered adding it to my already long list of concerts for the week if I thought I wouldn’t be completely exhausted.  Then I tried to enter to win tickets and they gave me a “winning” offer of buy one ticket get one free which is NOT a win when you were considering going to the show by yourself! But when my Mom got offered tickets to the show for free through her rewards card, she surprised me by trading in so we could go!

I was surprised the traffic getting up there after my meeting on Thursday was so light, but we had plenty of time to pick up our tickets, eat, and even play at a couple machines before heading in for the show – which we were told started at 7:30 but did not start until 8.

Tom Walker opened the show and I really liked his set. He is giving away a guitar and is looking for the best photo from the tour.  I gave it a shot but it was the first show and I doubt anything I can take on my phone will be the best show of an entire tour but you never know! He was from Manchester and was playing to just 300 people at his last show!

Around 9pm The Script took the stage.  Danny has WAY too much energy and I was finding it hard to keep up with him.  The show was at a casino and he teased about how it was a bad idea to invite a lucky Irish band to play at the casino – earlier he had put down $100 and got back 5.

The setlist was made up about 16 songs, a quarter of which were from their latest release, Freedom Child, including their latest single – Rain.  (Which I heard several times in Sirius radio while on our Hanson road trip the weekend before)

Danny ended up in the crowd 2 or 3 times throughout the night – and the crowd got more and more frenzied every time. The first time he went down I was surprised that everyone in the crowd was so calm, but his return trips down the stairs got crazier and crazier with him standing on seats in the crowd to sing and spending extra time with a couple of fans who were in wheelchairs.

After the show we were in the elevator and a guy asked me if we went to the show – but assumed we hadn’t.  When we said yes he was going on about how good it was. It was no surprise to me – I had seen them before and knew that Danny has a stage presence and energy that cannot be beat or matched!

The Script Setlist Grand Theater at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT, USA 2017, Freedom Child

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Hanson Middle of Everywhere Silver Spring

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After our trip to VA we made the trek to MD for the Hanson show in Silver Spring and the Members Only Event preshow.

Any Hanson.net member who RSVPed for the event was let in early to a pre-show performance of 7 Members Only songs and then a Q&A. They answered questions about who sings verse 2 on Ive Got Soul (and I think that is when Taylor quipped you could use Google – I’d have to agree – any question that I know the answer to or is on my website is not something you should be wasting our time asking…) they also go asked who has the best Walk of Shame story – which they refused to answer. They talked about if they felt their social media was personal or marketing (neither) a bit about Christmas shows being close to selling out and toying with the idea of a yearly Christmas themed event (please alternate it with BTTI somehow if you end up doing it, Hanson!) and then they did group photos with members in groups of 10.  You had the option of forgoing a photo to get to the front of the line for the entrance to the stage again after the photos. Since we were doing ADA anyway we opted for the photo and ended up next to Zac.

Then we waited for doors to officially opened and got our spot up on the balcony for the show (Taylor’s side this time) The setlist was a bit different than the night before – they always do tend to mix things up a bit when they are on tour in the US since they know so many fans travel to many shows. Unfortunately it is getting harder and harder for me to review said shows lol   Nothing of note happened – except that the AC was on FULL BLAST and blowing right at us the whole show which brought my chair dancing up a level or two to try and keep myself from freezing!

After the show was the after party but since it was a Sunday night we opted to not stay.

Hanson Setlist The Fillmore Silver Spring, Silver Spring, MD, USA 2017, Middle of Everywhere - 25th Anniversary Tour

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Hanson at The Norva

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Sometimes my partner in crime and I think we have great ideas and we can do it all. I think we also forget what ‘It’s only 5 hours away’ really means. Friday night I headed down to her place in Pennsylvania, we got to bed early and woke up at 5:30 to do the 5k / fun walk for Four Diamonds at Hershey Park. After completing the race we went back to her place, changed and headed in the car for the 5 hours to Norfolk and then attempted to nap in the car. (Which really didn’t work because we ended up in a noisy parking garage that was apparently free but we paid $10.50 before leaving)

Upon arrival at The Norva, we were told there was no separate line/entrance for ADA and it was “first come, first serve” I am not sure how you can tell people that it’s too bad so sad that they are disabled but they no longer have room to accommodate you… but whatever. We hopped in the members only line, got inside only to be told that Maribeth might not be able to stay near me in the ADA section. WHAT? (Also the fact that it was already “full” and the general line had yet to go in was pretty crappy) They put me in the “best seat in the house” according to our security friend Nolan (who was awesome and helped me up on the high chair and everything) and Maribeth stood next to me. Then one of the other security guys came over and told Maribeth that she couldn’t stand next to me and could go stand behind the section a good 5 feet away from where I was. She explained she didn’t drive all the way from PA to go to a show with me to not end up next to me… and the guy told her “If I make an exception for you, I have to make an exception for everyone. But I’ll make an exception for you” What? We couldn’t tell if he was being sarcastic or what but then he told her that no, she could stay there. WHY bother arguing and telling her no then, if it in the end you were just going to let her stay? Why do these venues have to get us all riled up over being able to have a safe spot and worry us for no reason? (This isn’t a one-off thing – getting an ADA spot is very often very stressful and it shouldn’t be that way!)

The great thing about this tour is that there is no opening act, so Hanson took the stage shortly after 8pm. Our spot put us just above Zac so we were staring at Isaac and Taylor’s back most of the night but it was a cool perspective because we could see the crowd like Hanson does during the show! When Zac and Taylor swapped spots for “Juliet”, Taylor spotted us up in our spot and ended up singing a few songs to us. They have been switching up the set a lot more in the states than they did in Australia and I was glad to sneak a peak at the setlist before the show and see that ‘with you in your dreams’ was NOT on it – but that Runaway Run and Save Me were! Zac was sick – I have never seen him sweat so much (and he actually wrung out his shirt at the end of the show on the stage and it was gross) so we opted to not hang out by the bus after the show and instead head to our crash pad for the night.

It was a great show to start our tour “run” on (if you can call just weekend shows a run) and we were looking forward to the members only event and concert in MD the next night.

Hanson Setlist The NorVa, Norfolk, VA, USA 2017, Middle of Everywhere - 25th Anniversary Tour

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